IMF Chief: Great seducer

IMF Chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s sordid fall from grace speaks of bilateral issues in the use of official kingdom and the authority of money in a case of sexual mores.

While the French would find it something they would rather not discuss, Strauss-Kahn’s fall from presidential hopeful to prison cell is indeed a combination of sordid tale and Shakespearean theatrics. For a future President of France to be attacking and allegedly raping a ‘maid in Manhattan’ is a story so extraordinary it smacks of a sexual innuendo and the hunger of raging French testosterone on American soil.

The ‘Great Seducer’ has unknowingly become a part of France versus rest of the world debacle that at once questions and dithers and questions the fallibility of the entire episode. But an IMF chief’s unending thirst for women’s private parts could indeed lead him to the silent walls of prison chambers, and therein lies the futility of the fervour and flavour of fun in the sun.

But in 2007 the Brussels correspondent Jean Quatremer had written a blog that said: “The only real problem with Strauss-Kahn is his attitude to women,” Mr Quatremer wrote. “He is too insistent… he often borders on harassment. The IMF is an international institution with Anglo-Saxon morals. One inappropriate gesture, one unfortunate comment, and there will be a media hue and cry.

Touche! This is no drama in the dark, it’s the truth of French finesse and all things hidden. It’s time to face the truth. Chiefs anywhere in the world must have a code of morality, not immoral ardour that is always hidden because the women never have the courage to come out in the open. Thank God the maid in Manhattan decided to spill the beans. And for the IMF…Do your homework Americans. If beds could talk many a man would blush!

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Uma Nair has been writing for the past 25 years on art and culture She has written as critic for Times of India and Economic Times. She believes that art is a progressive sojourn. And there are those who are taught and those who are self taught. She herself had learnt by looking at the best shows in Washington D.C. and New York. And life is about learning and growing...

Uma Nair has been writing for the past 25 years on art and culture She has written as critic for Times of India and Economic Times. She believes that art is. . .